http://portfolio.scistyle.com SciStyle Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:21:03 +0000 http://portfolio.scistyle.com en http://portfolio.scistyle.com/PhD-Defense-Talk http://portfolio.scistyle.com/following/portfolio.scistyle.com/PhD-Defense-Talk Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:21:03 +0000 SciStyle 2692714 http://portfolio.scistyle.com/Brain-Research-Animation http://portfolio.scistyle.com/following/portfolio.scistyle.com/Brain-Research-Animation Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:09:51 +0000 SciStyle 2584633 http://portfolio.scistyle.com/Research-Highlights-Infographic http://portfolio.scistyle.com/following/portfolio.scistyle.com/Research-Highlights-Infographic Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:35:43 +0000 SciStyle 2584579 <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/0/25430/2584579/research_highlights.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="414" width_o="1200" height_o="776" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/0/25430/2584579/research_highlights_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://portfolio.scistyle.com/Lignocellulose http://portfolio.scistyle.com/following/portfolio.scistyle.com/Lignocellulose Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:14:09 +0000 SciStyle 2584497 Cellulose (green) and lignin (brown) are two of the major components of the cell wall. The enzyme cellulase (orange) catalyzes the hydrolysis of cellulose. This process can be made use of in the fermentation of biomass into biofuels. Research at the Center for Molecular Biophysics aims at understanding the composition of the cell wall on the molecular level in order to increase the efficiency of biofuel production. <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/0/25430/2584497/lignocellulose-cellulase.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="320" width_o="1200" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/0/25430/2584497/lignocellulose-cellulase_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://portfolio.scistyle.com/Zinc-Sensor http://portfolio.scistyle.com/following/portfolio.scistyle.com/Zinc-Sensor Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:08:29 +0000 SciStyle 2584292 The Zinc Sensor CzrA (brown) is a transcriptional repressor. Upon binding of Zinc ions the protein detaches from the DNA. Cover of JACS, 2012. <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/0/25430/2584292/jacs_cover.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="701" width_o="640" height_o="701" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/0/25430/2584292/jacs_cover_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://portfolio.scistyle.com/Leukemia-Cell http://portfolio.scistyle.com/following/portfolio.scistyle.com/Leukemia-Cell Mon, 05 Sep 2011 07:06:06 +0000 SciStyle 1956385 This illustration, intended for the cover of a journal, depicts leukemia cells. The binding of an antibody (yellow) to a leukemia target protein kinase (purple) triggers the deactivation of the kinase activity and therefore 'switches off' the leukemia cell. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/25430/1956385/leukemia_cell.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="785" width_o="670" height_o="822" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/25430/1956385/leukemia_cell_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://portfolio.scistyle.com/Bacteriophage-attacking-E-coli http://portfolio.scistyle.com/following/portfolio.scistyle.com/Bacteriophage-attacking-E-coli Wed, 19 May 2010 11:47:23 +0000 SciStyle 419895 A phage is a virus that infects and kills bacteria such as E.coli. The restriction enzyme EcoRV cleaves and thus destroys the intruding viral DNA. However, methylation of EcoRV's cognate DNA sequence protects the native E.coli DNA from cleavage. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/25430/419895/phage_attack_schematic.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="399" width_o="1200" height_o="750" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/25430/419895/phage_attack_schematic_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/25430/419895/phage.jpg" border="0" width="514" height="571" width_o="514" height_o="571" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/25430/419895/phage_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://portfolio.scistyle.com/Infographics http://portfolio.scistyle.com/following/portfolio.scistyle.com/Infographics Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:26:36 +0000 SciStyle 380589 An infographic I did for the Acknowledgements of my PhD thesis. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/25430/380589/infographics.png" border="0" width="580" height="820" width_o="580" height_o="820" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/25430/380589/infographics_o.png" align="left" /> http://portfolio.scistyle.com/EcoRV-cleaving-DNA http://portfolio.scistyle.com/following/portfolio.scistyle.com/EcoRV-cleaving-DNA Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:37:05 +0000 SciStyle 305765 This figure illustrates how the endonuclease EcoRV cleaves DNA by scanning for its cognate sequence, binding strongly, kinking and then cleaving the DNA. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/25430/305765/ecoRV.png" border="0" width="640" height="183" width_o="1200" height_o="344" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/25430/305765/ecoRV_o.png" align="left" /> http://portfolio.scistyle.com/X-ray-Diffraction-Diagram http://portfolio.scistyle.com/following/portfolio.scistyle.com/X-ray-Diffraction-Diagram Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:12:15 +0000 SciStyle 304255 This diagram was created for the Wikipedia article on X-ray crystallography. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/25430/304255/X_ray_diffraction.png" border="0" width="373" height="600" width_o="373" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/25430/304255/X_ray_diffraction_o.png" align="left" />